Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quality of the courses indicates one of Gen Ed's greatest contributions to Harvard education. Unlike a department, the Committee has no use for the teaching services of the great scholar who bores students. It can altar or junk a course, and its repeated efforts to find or create an acceptable course in the biological sciences form one example. It would be hard to tell whether this influence has yet spread to other departments, but it certainly affects the many teaching fellows the Committee employs, the men who will climb the academic ladder to tenure in the departments eventually. This...
...will be true poetic justice when these examples of "poetry in motion" show up in the junk yards after being wrapped around sundry unpoetic, stationary objects, and are dubbed "Edsel's Pretzels...
...Bush's PBY had put down on the strip, he said, a truck appeared and delivered the Chinese boy. Several hours later, Bush, Sullivan and their wide-eyed passenger landed in the water off Macao, and the boy was handed over to a power-operated black Chinese junk that came up alongside the plane...
...forgot one small detail-that the Joshua Liebman opus, Peace of Mind, was the grandpappy of them all. Any corny tendencies of the books you named were to be found in embryo on that old cob. Also, why not direct your diatribes at the voracious public appetite for junk...
...small Mississippi River town in the '30s, with several of the stories pivoting around two youngsters named Jason and Ira Garrett. In Chip Canary, Jason tangles with the town queer woman, Elizabeth Minerva Stretch. She is a monstrous frump, always trundling a baby carriage full of junk and dubbed-for some shadowy peccadillo of the past-"Chip Canary." In a moment of adolescent bravado Jason yells out this taboo nickname, then breaks and runs. That night, snug in bed, Jason smiles as he hears his father say to his mother: "He's big enough, now, to take care...